input, bitte

[DrHonez]

oh, heres one:

how can I resize my screen (I think everyone knows what I mean) ctrl+alt+the plus symbol dont quite do it for me, I understand there is something in somewhere in Linux u can modify....

thanks for the earlier msgs..

[This message has been edited by DrHonez (edited 08-02-99).]

[geekd]

It's already a pretty standard service to get paged when new mail arrives. You can even specify to get paged only if it comes from a specific person.

If you are connected 24/7 at home and work (I am), then your computer will already play a sound when new mail arrives....

"OH MY GOD! You've got mail YOU BASTARD!"

is mine :-)

[Geoff]

Eudora makes a nice little tune when you get email.... you could turn the volume up and set it to check mail every 5 minutes. But this doesn't help you if you're trying to run just linux (I cheat a bit, I've got a masquerading linux server and a Win98 workstation here!!).

I'm sure that you could write a simple script in perl that checked the size of your mailbox every 5 minutes and if it was > 0 then the script would play a sound file.

> 1 MAILER-DAEMON@sloth. Sun Aug 1 22:56 12/511 "DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA"

you might want to watch out for that pesky bugger..... I think pine leaves that kind of thing lying around, the way to fix it is to type in "touch ~/mbox" and then pine moves it's configuration to that file and not your /var/spool/mail/<username> where it looks like new mail. Then your check for a > 0 filesize will work. Best to set the timer to every 5 minutes, that way if you're not there and somebody else is in the room they don't get driven nuts by the thing going off every 30 seconds. Anyway if you need your mail THAT fast you should stay at the computer http://discussions.linuxplanet.com//smile.gif

Geoff

P.S. I would have emailed you but:
a) I'm too lazy
b) I couldn't be bothered
c) did I mention I was lazy?
d) there are other people that read this board, somebody else may have been wondering the same thing so we post answers here so that more than one person can benefit. That's what a forum is for you see http://discussions.linuxplanet.com//smile.gif